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[3] [4] [2] [5] It also includes an art gallery encouraging younger generation of artists to exhibit modern and contemporary art. [3] [6] The museum is located in one of the Earthquake zones of India and is housed in a specially constructed building to withstand high intensity earthquake and extreme weather conditions. [3]
The Lakhudiyar Caves are located in the Barechhina village at the banks of the Suyal River in the Almora district of Uttarakhand. On the walls of the caves are paintings depicting animals, humans and also tectiforms, created with fingers in black, red and white. There are also a few animal motifs, one of them closely resembling a fox.
Cheli Aipan is a government initiative, to promote the Aipan art form. [10] With an aim to promote the local art form of Uttarakhand and to encourage the artists, The Aipan Resort [11] was established in Chopta, Rudraprayag, Uttarakhand. The resort aims at bringing the local art to a single place and practising its raw form.
The state song of Uttarakhand is a hymn, praising Uttarakhand as a divine motherland. Written by Hemant Bisht and composed by noted Uttarakhandi folk singer and musician Narendra Singh Negi , this song is trilingual with first three of its seven verses written in Hindi , while the last four verses are written in Garhwali and Kumaoni languages.
According to the 2011 Census of India, Uttarakhand has a population of 10,086,292 comprising 5,137,773 males and 4,948,519 females, with 69.77% of the population living in rural areas. The state is the 20th most populous state of the country having 0.83% of the population on 1.63% of the land.
Uttarakhand music (1 C, 1 P) ... Aipan art; L. Likhai This page was last edited on 20 November 2017, at 02:06 (UTC). Text is available under the ...
The Uttarakhand Chief Minister announced that the Kedarnath shrine would remain closed for a year for clearing the debris. Front view of the Kedarnath Temple in the aftermath of the flood The experts, who were asked by the Archaeological Survey of India to examine the condition of the foundation in wake of the floods have arrived at the ...
In 1913, Shilpkar Sudharini Sabha, held a convention for the uplifting of Dalits and oppressed people of the area, known as the Shilpkar Mahasabha in Uttarakhand. [3] Arya Samaj influenced a lot of them, especially in the Garhwal region, and many of them dropped their caste surnames and adopted 'Arya' as a last name. Jayananda Bharati and ...